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What's new in the fifth alpha release of Q-emuLator
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Config files
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Config files can now store serial ports settings. Fixed bug that
prevented automatic reading of configuration setting of more than
640K of RAM.



Improved memory access control
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The emulator now checks and avoid fetching 68000 instructions
outside the emulated QL's memory area.
These accesses used to raise a Windows exception, and the program
had to be terminated.



Fixed bugs in PAR and SER device drivers
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Fixed some bugs that caused the emulator to hang or crash when
accessing the parallel ports. Writing to a SER port with hardware
handshake and when the receiving device is not ready no longer
causes the emulator to wait forever.



QL Configuration dialog
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You may notice a new command in the QL menu. At the moment the command
is not enabled, but in the next versio of Q-emuLator it will allow
you to change the program's settings through a dialog box instead
of having to directly edit the configuration files.



For more information
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For information about all Q-emuLator's topics, including those reported
in this readme file, please refer to the Q-emuLator's manual.
The manual is available as a Word 8 file or as a HTML document.






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What was new in the previous (fourth) alpha release of Q-emuLator
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A bit faster (again)
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Emulation is slighty faster.



More QL RAM
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You can now emulate a QL with up to 4M of RAM.



Error reporting
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Fixed many bugs that caused run-time errors to be reported
incorrectly.
A bad disk sector results no more in an almost never ending sequence
of alert messages.



Disk repair programs
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QDOS floppy disks can now be accessed by QL disk repair programs and
by QL disk editors.



PAR device
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A new PAR device is available to write (and read!) to the PC parallel
ports. However, the driver has not been tested, yet.
